1933 - 2015
Nicolae Rainea (19 November 1933 – 1 April 2015), nicknamed The Locomotive of the Carpathians, was a Romanian football referee and player. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolae Rainea has received more than 38,022 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nicolae Rainea is the 12th most popular referee (down from 6th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Romania (down from 234th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Referee.
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Among referees, Nicolae Rainea ranks 12 out of 107. Before her are Romualdo Arppi Filho, Markus Merk, Felix Brych, Said Belqola, Horacio Elizondo, and Howard Webb. After her are Nicola Rizzoli, Maurice Guigue, Rudi Glöckner, Gottfried Dienst, Byron Moreno, and Tom Henning Øvrebø.
1939 - 2023
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 6
1962 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 7
1975 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 8
1956 - 2002
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 9
1963 - Present
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 11
1933 - 2015
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 12
1971 - Present
HPI: 48.34
Rank: 13
1912 - 2011
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 14
1929 - 1999
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 15
1919 - 1998
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 16
1969 - Present
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 17
1966 - Present
HPI: 47.30
Rank: 18
Among people born in 1933, Nicolae Rainea ranks 265. Before her are Tete Montoliu, Carol Burnett, Arif Malikov, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Lucian Pintilie, and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. After her are Ayako Wakao, Jonathan Penrose, Titus Buberník, H. D. Deve Gowda, James Wolfensohn, and Bob Rafelson. Among people deceased in 2015, Nicolae Rainea ranks 225. Before her are László Paskai, Geoffrey Howe, Karl Josef Becker, Nora Brockstedt, Lizabeth Scott, and Betsy Palmer. After her are Karl-Erik Palmér, Dusty Rhodes, Henry Carr, Nicholas Liverpool, Ninón Sevilla, and Julio Terrazas Sandoval.
1933 - 1997
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 259
1933 - Present
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 260
1933 - 2019
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 261
1933 - Present
HPI: 48.92
Rank: 262
1933 - 2018
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 263
1933 - 2003
HPI: 48.83
Rank: 264
1933 - 2015
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 265
1933 - Present
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 266
1933 - 2021
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 267
1933 - 2022
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 268
1933 - Present
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 269
1933 - 2020
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 270
1933 - 2022
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 271
1927 - 2015
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 219
1926 - 2015
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 220
1928 - 2015
HPI: 49.11
Rank: 221
1923 - 2015
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 222
1922 - 2015
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 223
1926 - 2015
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 224
1933 - 2015
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 225
1929 - 2015
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 226
1945 - 2015
HPI: 48.59
Rank: 227
1941 - 2015
HPI: 48.54
Rank: 228
1934 - 2015
HPI: 48.52
Rank: 229
1929 - 2015
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 230
1936 - 2015
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 231
Among people born in Romania, Nicolae Rainea ranks 280 out of 665. Before her are Corneliu Baba (1906), Constantin von Economo (1876), Aurel Popovici (1863), Cristian Chivu (1980), Béla Károlyi (1942), and Elemér Kocsis (1910). After her are Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei (1946), Gigi Becali (1958), Theodor Stolojan (1943), Marcel Iureș (1951), Nicolae Kovács (1911), and Andrei Mureșanu (1816).
1906 - 1997
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 274
1876 - 1931
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 275
1863 - 1917
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 276
1980 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 277
1942 - Present
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 278
1910 - 1981
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 279
1933 - 2015
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 280
1946 - 2021
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 281
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 282
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 283
1951 - Present
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 284
1911 - 1977
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 285
1816 - 1863
HPI: 48.44
Rank: 286
Among referees born in Romania, Nicolae Rainea ranks 1. After her are Ovidiu Hațegan (1980).